Create Sophisticated Productions with Powerful Multicam Workflow
By Jim Bask
When you want to take your video productions beyond simple point-and-shoot, you can shoot the scene from more than one angle to “take it up a notch.” In fact, it’s not unusual to shoot the same scene from different angles with four or more cameras. Take an interview, for instance. You might have one camera on the interviewer, another close on the interviewee, a third shot that shows both of them together, and a fourth for audience reaction.
Of course, you need to deal with a lot of logistics on set, and in the same way, you have a challenge to edit all of this footage. You want to easily cut between cameras to create your final project. VEGAS Pro has long provided a clear and easy way to edit a multiple-camera (multicam) presentation, and now with the release of VEGAS Movie Studio 14 Platinum, we bring that same powerful workflow to Movie Studio Platinum users. We’ll discuss the multicam workflow in this article. I’ll use the name VEGAS in a general sense to refer to both VEGAS Pro and VEGAS Movie Studio Platinum. Where differences exist, I’ll make sure to point them out specifically.
To understand how the multicam tools work, it helps to understand the concept of takes in VEGAS. You can use takes—a unique and innovative feature of VEGAS in its own right—for a number of reasons, and we’ve leveraged them to provide an easy multicam workflow. So, what is a take?..[continue reading]